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Nasa's commercial crew program because remember, since the shuttle program retired, u.s. no longer has a space transport vehicle to get astronauts and cargo to the international space station. we're currently paying russia lots and lots of money to hitch rides. >> the current contract is $63 million per seat. the united states just signed another contract for, i believe, six flights for over $70 million per seat. and if we do that -- if we perform that business here in the states, we can do it for less than that. >> last year congress approved $406 million for nasa to explore this particular p...

It it's a private space craft. it made history at 5:53 a.m. eastern time saturday docking with the space station. take a look at this. this is the hatch opening after the iss expedition 31 crew successfully attached space x's dragon capsule to the station. as i said, this is the first time a private company has taken part in this necessary step to keep the space station operational because, as we all remember, shuttle program retired. nasa officials are therefore hagel this as a new frontier for special activities in space. >> this is mission control houston, official hatch opening time for th...